Why Prohibition Is Wrong
Prohibition, We Gotta Get Out of Here! Making a wrong decision is bound to happen to everyone in life. Throughout history there have been multiple choices that end up being the wrong decision to choose. Humans, governments, and countries all make wrong choices. Creating Prohibition was one of those incorrect decisions in life that the U.S. government made. When the government put the ban on the making and selling of alcohol it lead to the decay and social disorder all around the U.S. Many people believed the ban on alcohol would help end the extensive drinking that was plaguing the United States but the law only made the drinking problem worse(Prohibition Encyclopedia).
When the Prohibition laws passed in 1919 that banned alcohol, expectations didn’t go as planned. The law was immediately broken by an abundance of illegal activity. There was Bootlegging, which is the term for buying and selling illegal alcohol, became widespread. Prohibition also lead to corruption of law enforcements officers and politicians around the country(Temperance). The corruption of law enforcement during this time helped build forceful crime syndicates, one being the operation of acclaimed gangster Al Capone. The most unforeseen …show more content…
With the law on his side, Capone was not arrested for his brutal actions. He was linked to over two hundred murders in Chicago, and was never convicted for any of them. Al Capone moved to Chicago in 1920 and in two years he was earning sixty million dollars annually from illegal liquor sales. Capone and other criminals were making fortunes bootlegging liquor, while the government was losing money every second from illegal alcohol(Prohibition and the Gangsters). Eleven billion dollars were lost in tax revenue from alcohol during Prohibition. The federal government lost another three hundred million dollars just trying to enforce the ban of
When the Prohibition laws passed in 1919 that banned alcohol, expectations didn’t go as planned. The law was immediately broken by an abundance of illegal activity. There was Bootlegging, which is the term for buying and selling illegal alcohol, became widespread. Prohibition also lead to corruption of law enforcements officers and politicians around the country(Temperance). The corruption of law enforcement during this time helped build forceful crime syndicates, one being the operation of acclaimed gangster Al Capone. The most unforeseen …show more content…
With the law on his side, Capone was not arrested for his brutal actions. He was linked to over two hundred murders in Chicago, and was never convicted for any of them. Al Capone moved to Chicago in 1920 and in two years he was earning sixty million dollars annually from illegal liquor sales. Capone and other criminals were making fortunes bootlegging liquor, while the government was losing money every second from illegal alcohol(Prohibition and the Gangsters). Eleven billion dollars were lost in tax revenue from alcohol during Prohibition. The federal government lost another three hundred million dollars just trying to enforce the ban of